Claw’s tricks with that device have backfired a bit once before; how often do you hear about drug recalls? What if the machine breaks down again? What if our esteemed author decides there really is a side-effect Claw needs to worry about? What if she just wanted her own funds? XD

She’s from an alternate future, and thought that she needed to remove herself from this timeline after preventing the dark future that she came from. But, she knew her younger self would still be around. Setting up the eighties investment fund was going to be a gift for her younger self’s college tuition!

“Why didn’t you go back to the 70s and get in on Big Oil?”
“Aside from not wanting to come back to this time and be partly responsible for half of every environmental problems we’re worried about? Turns out investors are leery of doing business with anyone whose social security number hasn’t been issued yet.”